[PyKDE] Solaris 9 / Sip problem

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 05:26:05AM -0800, Faulconer, Steven M. wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm having a bit of an issue with PyQT on Solaris 9. Here are the
> particulars:
> 
> Compiler : Sun Forte 6 Update 2
> QT : 3.1.2
> SIP : 3.10
> QScintilla : 1.54
> PyQT : 3.10
> Python : 2.3.3
> 
> I know my QT version is a little dated, but I don't have much choice since
> one of the software packages we use (don't have the source for) relies on
> 3.1.x version of QT.
> 
> The problem:
> 
> Everything compiles and installs fine. When I attempt to import qt I get:
> 
> [ steven @ leopard ] : python
> Python 2.3.3 (#1, Feb  9 2004, 17:07:32) [C] on sunos5
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import qt
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/qt.py", line 24, in ?
>     import libsip
> ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: relocation error: file
> /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libsip.so: symbol
> __1cG__CrunKpure_error6F_v_: referenced symbol not found
> >>>
> 
> Now, I've looked around the net quite a bit but haven't been able to find a
> solution. I noticed some problems back in July 2003 posted on this list, but
> never saw a response with a solution. My concern is that the version of QT
> (thus the version of the library) is too old to support the latest versions
> of SIP/PyQT. Anyone have any thoughts on this problem?

Did you build Python with the Sun C++ compiler? The symbol
__1cG__CrunKpure_error6F_v_ is from -lCrun. If you didn't build Python
with the Sun C++ compiler then -lCrun wasn't linked into the python
binary and thus the symbol isn't available.

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albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)